[R] Strange characters in 2.1.0?

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> "Dan" == Dan Bolser <dmb at mrc-dunn.cam.ac.uk>
>>>>>     on Mon, 6 Jun 2005 14:48:50 +0100 (BST) writes:

    Dan> On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Douglas Bates wrote:
    >> On 6/6/05, Dan Bolser <dmb at mrc-dunn.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
    >>> 
    >>> Signif. codes:  0 *** 0.001 ** 0.01 * 0.05 . 0.1   1
    >>> 
    >>> Signif. codes:  0 <80><98>***<80><99> 0.001 <80><98>**<80><99> 0.01
    >>> <80><98>*<80>        <99> 0.05 <80><98>.<80><99> 0.1 <80><98> <80><99> 1
    >>> 
    >>> Signif. codes:  0 *** 0.001 ** 0.01 * 0.05 . 0.1   1
    >>> 
    >>> hmm... they go away when I paste them in...
    >> 
    >> Check the character set in use.  You probably are using a UTF-8
    >> encoding in an environment that does not support display of that
    >> character set.

    Dan> I feel it is something utf8-ish, I am using emacs-ess-5.2.3, which was
    Dan> working fine under R-2.0.0, but developed this problem under R-2.1.0

ess-5.2.3  is outdated for the purpose of well cooperating with
UTF-8 outputs from R 2.1.x
IIRC, ESS cooperates with   R "with UTF encoding" since about ESS 5.2.6.
but ESS-5.2.8 is current  { --> http://ESS.r-project.org/ )

      ..........

    Dan> I have gone back to 2.0.0 :)

Don't do that!
You've lost tons of nice new features and gained quite an amount
of old bugs by downgrading .. 

Martin